Photography

It took us a while but finally we were able to get some time to talk with the brilliant German artist, Stephan Brenn-a tour de force of creativity.
Stephan Brenn's intriguing projects are built on a foundation of simplicity and it is his ability to make...

Words like stunning and mesmerising would not be sycophantic utterings when describing the work of Patrick Mcpheron. On the contrary, it would be adjectives of literal fact to describe his INVASION series.
Thrusting us into his vividly coloured and graded world of post 50’s sci-fi films, the Los...

French born, Richard Vantielcke counts the great surrealist Rene Magritte as an inspiration and indeed an ongoing compass in terms of his photographic creativity. That said it would be reductionist to align the 41-year old French man’s creativity to one source.
A self-confessed cinephile with a...

Twenty-year old, Puerto-Rican born Jackson McGoldrick is still a veritable youngster when it comes to the world of photographer.
A self-confessed ‘artist’ his earlier work with its clean, technically sound approach had a clear bias towards fashion but #itchysilk have caught him in a transitional period....

Since her initial passion was sparked in the woods of small town Ohio, Susan Sims Hillbrand has been an exponent of pen light photography.
An art made famous by luminaires such as Gjon Mili, Susan has forged her own inimitable style exploring subjects such as; death...

Poem Baker the London based photographer initially captured us with her intriguing work Autastic. It’s an exploration of one child’s life living with autism through intimate black and white images immersing you in the world of the young Hamish’s life. It is this intimacy that...

Born in Stříbro - a small town in former Sudentenland, Lukas Houdek is the Czech photographer and all round creative capturing images that delve into social commentary and explore subjects considered taboo.
The word cathartic has become almost a cliché in descriptions of art but in...

Italian photographer, Andrea Tomas Prato celebrates, documents and captures the nude female body. In many ways capturing female nudity is a mine field of discussion with polemical rhetoric regarding the objectification of women and of course the male gaze volatile areas.
In his images of the female body,...

At a time where political unrest in Jamaica was at its height and indeed the globe was in a period of unrest, New York born journalist and photographer Beth Lesser was able to immerse herself in Jamaican culture and evidently the reggae/dancehall scene circa 1980....

Venezuelan born Oscar Aramendi’s journey to photography saw him forgo a burgeoning career as an architect for an artform which he states allowed him to find another ‘way of communicating’. In Oscar’s world he communicates his interpretations of worlds where he embraces the, dystopian, fraternizes...

25 year-old London based, Vasilisa Forbes is statuesque and striking but such reductionism centred on natural aesthetics would be a dire crime.
The Russian photographer, videographer and all round visionary creative brings works which sizzle with vibrancy, as glossy colours or obscure and abstract images agitate...

In truth here at #itchysilk it was a sense of achievement to finally get some time with the enigmatic US based photographer Luc Kordas.
We were initially taken by Kordas’ images of Hasidic Jews in New York. The images seemed to be a window into their...